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How to Bake a Pencil Case Shaped Cake: A Guide for Beginners
Baking a pencil case shaped cake can be a fun and creative project for both beginners and experienced bakers. Here's a step-by-step guide to help you create a delicious and visually appealing pencil case cake.
Choosing the Right Recipe
The first step is to choose a dense cake recipe, such as a pound cake, mud cake, or butter cake. These recipes create a firm crumb that provides a stable base for shaping and decorating.
Baking the Cake
Bake the cake in a rectangular or loaf pan. Once baked, allow it to cool completely before refrigerating to firm it up, making carving neater and easier.
Carving the Cake
Carefully carve the cooled and chilled cake to create the pencil case shape, trimming corners or edges to get the desired dimensions.
Decorating the Cake
Use a sturdy frosting like American buttercream or ganache for crumb coating and decorating. For smooth surfaces and precise details, consider using fondant or modeling chocolate.
Storing the Cake
If the cake contains buttercream, it should be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator. A plain marble or lemon school bag can be stored at room temperature in a suitable box.
Tips and Tricks
- When applying a fat glaze, heat it up and pour it over the cake to make it firm.
- Remove excess shortcrust edges with a serrated knife to keep the base dry.
- Brushing jam on the baked sand mass is an option, but let the cake cool before applying the jam.
- Choosing a jam without chunks or pureeing it is recommended. Hot apricot jam is suitable for adding to chocolate glaze.
- Thinly spreading chocolate on the shortcrust to keep it crispy is an option.
- When cutting the pencil case, care should be taken to ensure that nothing leaks out.
- Pudding, jam, or butter cream can be used as filling for a pencil case cake. Ready-made vanilla glaze can be used for decoration.
- For more experienced bakers, the pencil case can be baked in two halves or twice to create a filled cake.
Recipe Resources
For a chocolate pencil case cake recipe, check out Kathrin Runge's blog "Baking makes happy". For a sponge cake dough, consider marble, lemon, or red wine cakes.
Additional Information
Leftover shortcrust dough can be frozen in its uncooked state, while sugar-based decorations may run when refrigerated. Thinning icing with milk can make it more opaque, and fondant is another option for decoration.
Remember, this guide relies on established cake decorating principles for sculpted cakes suitable for beginners. For a step-by-step tutorial video or drawing guide for cake decorating, you might check beginner-friendly cake decorating videos or drawing tutorials.
Enjoy baking your pencil case shaped cake, and have a wonderful school year!
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